Guillaume Henri Andre Fonkenell

Mr. Guillaume H.
Fonkenell is a Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer at Pharo Management (UK) LLP and a Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer at Pharo Management, Inc. He is on the Board of Directors at The Gecko Foundation and The Pharo Foundation.
He has over 25 years of experience trading currencies, bonds and derivatives in developed and emerging markets.
Prior to founding Pharo Management LLC in 2000, Mr. Fonkenell was a Managing Director at Merrill Lynch in New York.
During his four-year tenure at Merrill Lynch, he initiated and successfully managed two businesses.
The first one, the Latin American Local Markets Trading Group, had the mandate to take positions in all currencies, bonds and derivatives in Latin America.
The second one, the Global Credit Derivatives Group, focused on structuring highly sophisticated emerging markets transactions for American, European and Japanese investors.
Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, he was a Vice President at Bankers Trust in New York, where he traded interest rate swaps and options for four years.
After one year as the Senior Swaps Trader, he was promoted to head all interest rate options trading activities.
At Bankers Trust, Mr. Fonkenell used his quantitative background to design, structure and trade the most complex derivative products.
Mr. Fonkenell holds Masters Degrees in both Civil Engineering and International Business from Ecole Nationale Des Ponts-Et-Chaussées in Paris, France.
He is also an alumnus of Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.